Yarmuth talks up Ashley Judd for Senate

11/8/12 12:44 PM EST

Actress and Kentucky native Ashley Judd is being touted as a top contender to challenge Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 election, with supporters saying it could produce the ”premier race in the country.”

”If you had an Ashley Judd-McConnell race, I think it would be as high profile a race as Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown,” said U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky.

Judd knows something about races. She is married to IZOD IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner.

The McConnell race is one of the Democrats' top priorities for 2014. A more conventional candidate, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, recently declined to rule out a run.